19 A man of great wrath will pay the penalty,
    for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again.

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19 A person with intense anger bears the penalty;
if you rescue him, you’ll have to do it again.(A)

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24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
    nor go with a wrathful man,
25 lest you learn his ways
    and entangle yourself in a snare.

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24 Don’t make friends with an angry person,[a]
and don’t be a companion of a hot-tempered one,(A)
25 or you will learn his ways(B)
and entangle yourself in a snare.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:24 Lit with a master of anger

22 (A)A man of wrath stirs up strife,
    and one given to anger causes much transgression.

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22 An angry person stirs up conflict,
and a hot-tempered one[a] increases rebellion.(A)

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  1. 29:22 Lit a master of rage